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mircea_popescu: davout i wouldn't particularly mind having this to hold over taleb.
mircea_popescu: so if mtgox recycles its deposits to its own addresses fifty times it now has paid out 50x its actual capital ?
mircea_popescu: the thinking is that you're more likely to misinform than inform trying to do that.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to read anything, im stuck here with you guise,
mircea_popescu: of course the great germany of ww1 fielded as many people as russia did,
mircea_popescu: and never was fully confident in his actually much smarter military advisers.
mircea_popescu: this for very good reasons having to do with mobilization times.
mircea_popescu: the old plans (from ww2) called for germany to sweep west into france and then east to russia
mircea_popescu: hitler was, if my otherwise uninformed opinion interests, simply caught in a battle with his own demons.
mircea_popescu: before it had to fucking invade. and they likely wouldn't have cared to find out.
mircea_popescu: a russian officer makes the point that most of the russian soldiers didn't even know wtf germany is
mircea_popescu: decimation in one of the countless retellings of the entire nazi thing (a woman in berlin)
mircea_popescu: decimation average han guy marching ~1700 days on foot to reach moscow ?!
mircea_popescu: whether its enemies actually bother to call the us on its gargle or not... they still own it.
mircea_popescu: so yarvin delivers. there, greenspan_fan is a short and sweet explanation of the concept.
mircea_popescu: "You know, Goog, once you start lying, there's really no end to it. For one thing, even if your enemies ignore lying, defensive evasion, and other telltale "beta" behaviors, they still own you." <<< whoa.
mircea_popescu: it does seem the sort of nonsense he publishes for the sake of being interesting to chicks.
mircea_popescu: germany left alone to overrun england'd have been a royal fucking pain.
mircea_popescu: without that the us story would have ended in the 60s rather than 50 years later.
mircea_popescu: that would be what you're proposing, n'est pas ? that it could do such a thing, "if need be"
mircea_popescu: otherwise it easily sums up to "example of the us failing to project its claimed power"
mircea_popescu: only debatable in the sense of debatably useful for your side in this discussion
mircea_popescu: otherwise you know... some presidents were really tall and handsome.
mircea_popescu: i asked you to qualify well run strictly in the context of our discussion.
mircea_popescu: somehow somewhere in this world this fucktard exists, and he doth believe he meaningfully has any impact on anything whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i thought we were discussing projection of power.
mircea_popescu: the "someone like me" is some nobody on twitter, whose claim to fame was "retweeting only women"
mircea_popescu: " I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his film to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I wasn't inclined to give some producer the nod on this. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that yarvin piece is absolutely fuckingly hysterically funny, because :
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan go into detail re: well run. use examples.
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
mircea_popescu: anyway. obama thought he's tough tits, talked shit to putin like any random forum retard.
mircea_popescu: up until the time when barbarians stormed in and took a piss on their kimono
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so for the folks running the forbidden city all sorts of things were epic pants creaming victories.
mircea_popescu: we can take the historical facts as historical facts tho.
mircea_popescu: soo... for the arab side : 1.enemies looses bank ; 2. we gain mosque ; 3. we destroy some enemy wealth ; 4. enemy destroys some more of its own wealth.
mircea_popescu: at a cost to the us of about billions in direct damages, and then billions more in materiel over a war they've yet to win.
mircea_popescu: ten arabs turned a spot of their choosing in manhattan from bank to mosque.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it could project more power at the risk of having its arms broken off and used to beat it over the head.
mircea_popescu: obviously all power vacuums create plugs, much like all drainage pipes create clogs
mircea_popescu: the beauty of "national emergencies" is that even bureaucrats suddenly become free agents
mircea_popescu: for they well know that the enemy may or may not be inclined to buy the nurnberg defense.